Software Component Relation Engine for API Composition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern software applications face challenges in development and maintenance due to the complexity of interacting with multiple third-party APIs, requiring multiple calls to achieve desired results, which can involve data pagination, authentication, and combining data from different sources.
Innovation Solution
A software component environment that abstracts API calls through a unified interface abstraction layer, allowing developers to compose operations that seamlessly handle calls to multiple APIs, manage authentication, and aggregate data from different sources, using a parser and executor to translate logic into unified actions and execute them across various API standards.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple API calls are made to obtain desired data results from third-party data sources, then data completeness is improved, but code complexity and maintenance difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer (abstraction layer) between the application logic and multiple API calls. This layer manages the complexity of making multiple sequential API calls to third-party data sources, handling pagination, authentication, and data aggregation transparently. The intermediary allows developers to make a single high-level call while the system automatically orchestrates multiple underlying API requests.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the complex task of data retrieval into manageable components: authentication management, pagination handling, data aggregation, and error handling. Each aspect is handled by a dedicated module or function, allowing the system to manage multiple API calls systematically while keeping the overall code structure organized and maintainable.
2Reliability
If multiple API calls are made to handle pagination and data aggregation, then data completeness is improved, but execution time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-fetching and caching authentication tokens and metadata before actual data retrieval operations. The system prepares pagination parameters and authentication credentials in advance, so when multiple API calls are needed, the overhead of authentication and parameter preparation is minimized, reducing overall execution time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent ensures continuity of useful action by implementing asynchronous processing and parallel API calls where possible. While maintaining data completeness through multiple calls, the system overlaps I/O operations, processes data streams continuously, and avoids idle waiting time between sequential API requests, thereby reducing total execution time.
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AI summary
Various embodiments support or provide for a software environment in which one or more software components (e.g., APIs) can be relationally composed together by logic (e.g., as defined using a computer language) to form an operation that abstracts details of the composition, such as details relating to the multiple API calls being made in the composition, to implement the logic of the operation. Depending on the embodiment, a particular software component environment can comprise one or more of the following: a data connector to an external software service; stored authentication information to establish access to the external software service; an operation having defined logic for using at least one data connector or another operation (e.g., from operation repository); or an endpoint for deploying the operation for access.